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forwarding agents with all required logistical services between runway and end-user warehouse. In addition to that we also own and operate an excellent 24/7 non-slot-restricted airport infrastructure. The combination of supplying both the infrastructure and the support services means that we are a hub and gateway rather than merely an airport.”
“The cargo growth made up for the slightly weaker development in passenger figures”
van Hessen
“we are a hub and gateway rather than merely an airport”
high throughput for the gateway and a delighted Markus Kopp, CEO of operator Mitteldeutsche Flughafen, commented: “Having set a new record high for handling freight, Leipzig/Halle airport also demonstrated in an impressive manner that it is one of the leading air freight handling centres in Germany and Europe.” Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding is the
parent brand of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen and it has three subsidiaries: Leipzig/Halle Airport, Dresden International airport and PortGround, which together reported a total of 760,737 tonnes of freight handled during 2011. Cologne-Bonn International airport
also beat its own annual freight traffic record in 2011. Although passenger traffic was somewhat disappointing, cargo throughput was up by approximately 13 percent on 2010 and Michael Garvens, CEO of operator Flughafen Köln/Bonn, observed: “All in all, the cargo growth made up for the slightly weaker development in passenger figures.” According to Franz Heuckeroth van
Hessen, director cargo and sales at Cologne-Bonn: “We are Europe’s only airport that provides airlines and
Benelux contenders Belgium’s busiest air freight gateway is to be found not in the capital but just outside the city of Liège, where the airport beat its own annual cargo traffic record last year, handling over 674,000 tonnes of freight – a 5.4 percent improvement on 2010. But there are big plans for expansion.
An 11 million euro (US$14.4 million) programme forms part of a strategy of growth this year that incorporates a new 6,100m2
cargo handling facility in the
airport’s north zone to complement the three units that have already been built. Liège airport CEO Luc Partoune
believes: “All these developments are designed to support business growth and to supply a quality of service adapted to the demands of cargo companies and logistics businesses working on the site.” Home to Europe’s biggest all-cargo
carrier Cargolux, Luxembourg’s Findel International airport also hosts 15 other carriers and serves a total of 26 countries with connections from its runways. It handles a weekly average of 700 flights that brought in 656,653 tonnes of air freight in 2011, down by nearly 7 percent on its 2010 showing. Istanbul handled 498,047 tonnes of
freight last year, according to ACI figures. That was a full 10 percent up on the 2010 result, an improvement thanks in part to the rapidly expanding operations of Turkish Airlines and its Turkish Cargo air freight division.
Collapse and construction Located 40km north-west of central Milan, Malpensa International airport, Italy’s busiest air freight gateway, has seen a lot of change in the years since the late 1990s when it took over from Linate as the main gateway to the
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